Authorities: Man arrested in Little Rock linked to death of woman found in shipping container
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The Associated Press
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January 19, 2018 at 3:52 p.m.
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25-year-old Joseph Porter

MINNEAPOLIS — The ex-boyfriend of a Minnesota woman is accused of killing her and burning her body in Louisiana. He was also charged Friday with a federal count of kidnapping.

Twenty-seven-year-old Cristina Prodan of Edina was reported missing by her mother Jan. 5. Prodan's former boyfriend, 25-year-old Joseph Porter, was arrested by Arkansas State Police last week in Little Rock on suspicion of auto theft.

The Star Tribune reported that according to the theft charges, Prodan's burned body was found in a shipping container in New Orleans on Jan. 6. The document says Porter's husband, Richard Crawford, told investigators that Porter admitted to killing Prodan somewhere in Minnesota and taking her body to New Orleans where he burned it. Porter has not been charged in her death.